Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1994, 4:16 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1994, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1994, 5:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 121 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -240 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1199 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMOB 162119 RRA SVRMOB ALC003-162215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 416 PM CDT THU JUN 16 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA ...SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY AT 412 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY NEAR FOLEY ALABAMA. TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN AND SOME MINOR BUILDING DAMAGE OCCURED AT THE RIVERIA OUTLET CENTER NEAR FOLEY AROUND 400 PM CDT AS THIS STORM MOVED OVER THE OUTLET. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 5 MPH AND WILL PASS OVER THE CITY OF FOLEY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-162030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 240 PM CDT THU JUN 16 1994 THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG THE COAST OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA... THE MISSISSIPPI COAST...AND ACROSS SOUTHERN ALABAMA. IN THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG THE COAST FROM PENSACOLA EAST TO BAY COUNTY. THESE STORNS WILL DUMP HEAVY RAINFALL CAUSING STREET AND LOW AREA FLOODING. IN ADJDITION...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE LARGER THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING VERY LITTLE.
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:53 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-LAZ-162155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 350 PM CDT THU JUN 16 1994 AT 345 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ALONG THE ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI COAST. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY ALABAMA AND JACKSON COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 5 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL..DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIDN. STREETS MAY FLOOD QUICKLY.
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.